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crying (root: cry)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun crying has 1 sense
- crying(n = noun.act) tears, weeping - the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" has particulars: snivel, sniveling, sob, sobbing, bawling, wailing
is a kind of activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process
Derived forms verb cry2, verb cry7
Adjective crying has 2 senses
- crying(s = adj.all) clamant, exigent, insistent, instant - demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"
- crying(s = adj.all) egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank - conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
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crying, a.
Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. [1913 Webster]
"Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
crying, attrib.adj. (of an injustice or other evil) flagrant, demanding redress (a crying need; a crying shame).
THESAURUS
crying
acute, atrocious, bawling, blatant, blubbering, boanergean, brawling, burning, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, compelling, critical, crucial, cry, demanding, desperate, dire, dissolved in tears, draining, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, fit of crying, flood of tears, good cry, grasping, greet, heinous, high-pressure, high-priority, howling, imperative, imperious, importunate, in tears, insistent, instant, lachryma, lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimatory, loud, loudmouthed, lowing, melting mood, monstrous, mugient, necessary, needed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, overflowing eyes, persistent, pertinacious, pivotal, pressing, puling, ready to cry, scandalous, screaming, shocking, shouting, sniveling, sobbing, taxing, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, teary, ululant, urgent, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, wailing, weepiness, weeping, weepy, whimpering, whining, with eyes suffused, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelpingROGET THESAURUS
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Requirement
N requirement, need, wants, necessities, necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want, Adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of, ex necessitate rei, of necessity, there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.Cry
N cry, voice, hubbub, bark, vociferation, outcry, hullabaloo, chorus, clamor, hue and cry, plaint, lungs, stentor, crying, clamant, clamorous, vociferous, stentorian, open-mouthed.Ululation
N ululation, cry, crying, bowwow, ululation, latration, belling, reboation, wood-note, insect cry, fritiniancy, drone, screech owl, cuckoo, wailing (lamentation), crying, blatant, latrant, remugient, mugient, deep-mouthed, full-mouthed, rebellowing, reboant, in full cry, (iii) MUSICAL SOUNDS, ululation, cry, crying, bowwow, ululation, latration, belling, reboation, wood-note, insect cry, fritiniancy, drone, screech owl, cuckoo, wailing (lamentation), crying, blatant, latrant, remugient, mugient, deep-mouthed, full-mouthed, rebellowing, reboant, in full cry, (iii) MUSICAL SOUNDS.
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